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Confederate rage, Yankee wrath : no quarter in the Civil War /
This provocative study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil War-killing them instead of treating them as prisoners of war. Rather than looking at the massacres as a series of discrete and random events, this work exa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2007]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This provocative study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil War-killing them instead of treating them as prisoners of war. Rather than looking at the massacres as a series of discrete and random events, this work examines each as part of a ruthless but standard practice. Author George S. Burkhardt details a fascinating case that the Confederates followed a consistent pattern of murder against the black soldiers who served in Northern armies after Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. He s. |
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| Notas: | Paperback edition 2013. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-329) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780809389544 0809389541 |